To Breastfeed Or Not To ? Part 1/2

You know, some people say that to breastfeed is a MATERNAL INSTINCT.

I dunno.

I seem to have to think about it months or years before I actually am in a situation that warrants the action.

So, this is my take.

When I became pregnant, no one I know breastfed their babies.  Okay, okay.  This was in 1998 and we’re living in a developed country where infant formula were the in think if you have babies.  This was not the States or the UK where the recognition of benefits of breastfeeding were shouted about.  This was where the huge market of those infant formula end.  The society has been brandished by years of advertisement that infant formula is far superior than the plain, basic mother’s milk.

And the worse is, our mothers, our grandmothers raised us all consuming the same thing and look at us.  All well and jolly. So, what’s wrong with the infant formula?

Let me scream this out!

It’s wrong!  It’s wrong!  It’s wrong!

The only problem is that I can’t be screaming this at my mom, or my grandmother.  So, most people just succumbed to this.

Luckily the times have changed and mothers, old and new are rediscovering the joy of breastfeeding.  But it has to be seen.  The habit has to be acceptably considered a norm before it can catch on.

And alhamdulillah, I believe that mothers here in Malaysia have grasped the idealogy that breastfeeding is far far superior than any man-made formula.

Part 2.  Next.